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Shanghai Sessions
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So this is just a first attempt to see what this CommentPress theme can do and to get some feedback on the five sessions I want to facilitate at the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai in September. Let's see what happens.
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Much about the world is changing, but the big challenges are not coming from the technologies as much as what the technologies allow us to do. We'll have a conversation of what living and learning in a hyperconnected, hypertransparent world is like and how the definitions of things like privacy, presence, and authority are shifting around us.
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MySpace, Wikipedia, cell phones and other disruptive technologies are being blocked and filtered at schools around the world. In this session, we'll discuss the ways in which these tools can positively influence classroom instruction and share ideas about the best ways to implement them in our practice.
How do proponents of Read/Write Web technologies in education best respond to those, like author Andrew Keen, who feel that social tools do more to dumb us down than make us smarter? We'll outline the key arguments against these technologies and discuss what reasonable responses might be.
Thousands of teachers and students around the world are using Web 2.0 tools in their schools, but how many of them are using them to build learning skills and capacity. How do teachers roles change in this "new" world? Do teachers need to be steeped in pedagogy, or do they more need to be able to model and facilitate learning in their classrooms?
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In this session, we'll talk about what types of literacies are most important in a globally connected, collaborative world with a focus on our own, personal learning practice. How do we manage the deluge of information that comes our way? How do build our learning networks and communities? And how do we model these practices for our colleagues and our students?
Posted by willrich45 on July 27, 2007
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